Word: pints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This situation was soon remedied by an officer who improvised a pay chit out of an old envelope. With this slip in hand, the half-pint "officer" waited his turn in line and then strode up and presented it to an amazed disbursing officer...
...Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...
...Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...
Since the start of the Red Cross Campaign for Blood Plasma 75 members of the Army and civilian staffs in the Electronics School here at Harvard have gone into Berkeley Street to give their pint for the boys at the fighting fronts...
...Mary's solace was the wine which all the children had at each meal. "She wished for death, and, feeling she might achieve this by excessive drinking, drank more than a tumblerful of wine every night. . . ." She wound up in the hospital, sick and stuporous after drinking a pint of wine. After her sister got well and her father hired a housekeeper, Mary's thirst disappeared. In fact, the idea of wine nauseated...